"The Corporation" An absolutely "must-see" movie. FREE at UH 3/2

[tommcintyre]

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UH Political Film Series

Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00 PM
St. John auditorium, UH Manoa
At the corner of Maile Way and East-West Rd.

"The Corporation"

SYNOPSIS
THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular
rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage
from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate
propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our
lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its
logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on
the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person
is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The
Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate
insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam
Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true
confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Winner of 24 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE
CHOICE AWARDS including the AUDIENCE AWARD for
DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM
FESTIVAL.Ê

The film is based on the book The Corporation: The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel
Bakan.

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I think this movie is a "must-see" since so much of our present problems stem from "corporate overgrowth". I would rank this among the top five progressive documentaries.

[yorkiemommie1]

1. hope to see it here too

have you read John Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man?

a must-read to go along w/ this movie.

thanks from a UH grad

[tommcintyre]

2. Definitely was worth seeing

Longterm, after seeing it, I now would have to put it in the top two most important progressive documentaries (Manufacturing Consent being the other one on the top for me). The reason I have to qualify it as "long term" is because of the election fraud situation. Until we can make sure our votes are counted, we really can't deal effectively with all the problems this corporate overgrowth has created. So movies like Invisible Ballots are temporarily (hopefully) more important. After 2 1/2 hours of describing the myriad of problems this "Frankenstein monster" (we created) is causing, The Corporation ended by showing people punching a ballot as the solution.

I haven't read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, but it does sound like it fills in a lot of the darker side of how we sabotage poorer countries. There is a good interview with the author here:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
"We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies."

In the interview, he said he finally decided to write the book because he felt 9/11 was a result of our actions.

If we weren't so busy trying to cheat these countries, I'll bet no one would have any excuse to be spending all these billions fighting them to "defend democracy".

[progressivehawaiilib]

3. interesting but long

it was a decent flick, but they took over two hours to make points they could have made in 45 minutes. they are also very one-sided and it gets irritating. still probably worth seeing.